Tag: atom
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/801px-plato_in_nuremberg_chronicle_lxxiiiv-1918879990-e1725717021405.jpg?w=801)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance
A draft version of a deprecated chapter about the later classical philosophers, including the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle and the Epicureans…
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![[Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/romanvirgilfolio101r.jpg?w=914)
[Old] Rethinking Biological Transmutations – My Story so far…
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. I am getting bogged down with my first chapter. It largely covers Ancient Greek philosophical insights into many of the important matters that are to be explored in later chapters of this book. Every single one of these philosophers (at least the most significant figures up to and including Aristotle)…
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![[Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-summer_breviary-renaud_de_bar-2.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance
This book – if I even manage to write it(!) – will be a big philosophical work. I intend it to be based on a number of ideas and indications I discovered in the course of my researches on the original book…
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[Old] Chapter 16: Chemistry, the Atom & the Harmony of the Spheres [New Ch.21 V0.1]
In which a synthesis of the previous chapters is attempted, linking them all with biodynamics and the harmony of the spheres.
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![[Old] Chapter 5: Radioactivity, Isotopes and the Taming of the Atom[New Ch.13 V0.1.2]](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/katodsugarak_magneses_mezoben-bw.jpg?w=961)
[Old] Chapter 5: Radioactivity, Isotopes and the Taming of the Atom[New Ch.13 V0.1.2]
The so-called uncuttable atom proved to hold a deeper secret. Something of that story is given in the second half of the Wikipedia article on Atomic Theory…
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![[Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/perrin_jean_e28093_atomes_1913-4216025616-e1725795364947.jpg?w=936)
[Old] Chapter 4: The Hypothetical Atom [New Ch.8 V0.2.2]
The story of the atom is a long and complex one. Their existence was hypothesised largely because they were easy to imagine and even easier to mathematize – as easy as one, two, three! They were generally considered to be very small, solid and like billiard balls in their collisions. Some believed that they possessed…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 